The deadly stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors as she walked in a park near the school’s campus jarred New York City, recalling an…
Officials from states with strong gun restrictions want stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers. The fatal attack on a Jewish…
Burlington, Vt., Police Chief Brandon del Pozo used an anonymous Twitter account to troll a government critic, the Associated Press reports. Del Pozo, the chief…
There’s widespread agreement among justice reformers that decisions about whether to jail people accused of crimes before trial should not be based on whether they…
While jail populations have dropped 18 percent in urban areas since 2013, they have climbed 27 percent in rural areas, says the Vera Institute of…
In a stunning rebuke of the decade-long push to privatize Florida prisons, an independent audit says the state is losing money and facing litigation because…
As news of the school shooting in Santa Clarita, Ca., broke last month, one key piece of information was absent from the headlines and initial…
The neighboring states of Washington and Oregon had starkly different rates of compliance with expanded comprehensive background check (CBC) laws on private gun purchases, according…
Before leaving office this week, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued 428 pardons, some for people who committed violent offenses. His list included a man convicted…
In the United States, there are approximately 2.3 million people incarcerated at any moment, with the state of Louisiana “far outpacing the nation” as it…